It was from words dropped by chance that, little by little, everything was revealed to me.

他无意中吐露些话逐渐使我搞清了他。

This is Gill here from engVid, and today's lesson is on the subject of the " Months of the Year" and where the names for the months come from.

我是自engVidGill，今天课程主题是" 月份" 以及月份名称。

Who to thank for the word " serendipity" .

“机缘巧合”词。

Very carefully, I told him about the letter to The Times, and the money.

于是我把如何为了他与《泰晤士报》联系那封信及有关钱详详细细地告诉了他。

The first difficulty which we had to contend with was the finding of this American's antecedents.

首先必须克服困难就是要查明这个美国人。

When we cry, our top lip starts to wobble and so this gave rise to the idiom a stiff upper lip, meaning to not show your feelings when you are upset, even though it is difficult not to.

我们哭候，上嘴唇就开始抖动。这就是“a stiff upper lip”（僵硬上嘴唇）这个习语。意思是即使很难做到，难过候也不表现出。

But many people likely do not know where it comes from.

但是很多人很大可能不知道它。

Then I learned what those papers were, and that my father edited one of them.

后我才了解到那些报纸——我父亲是在对文章进行编辑校对。

I'm not stupid, Mr. Gilbert. You knew who I was when you requested the meeting.

我并不愚蠢，Gilbert先生。你安排这次见面候就知道我了。

It's actually how moths and butterflies get their scientific name.

这实际上是飞蛾和蝴蝶学名。

There are two theories as to how Rhode Island got its name.

罗德岛名字有两种理论。

Aaaaa, Ren, however, didn't really care how she came to be.

啊啊啊，然而，任并不真正关心她。

" It is only Kusunda whose origins we don't know."

“只有库孙达语我们不清楚。”

Well, are you aware of its history? The previous owner was harboring a murderer.

你知道这房子吗？之前房东在家窝藏谋杀犯。

A pensioner had owned it for decades unaware of its origins.

这个石棺在位退休老人手中几十年了，但他根本不知道它。

Not a lie, pal, I would prefer to remain in the dark concerning your provenance.

说实话 伙计 我宁愿对你无所知。

So what's the history of this idiom?

那么这个习语是什么？

Everyone called Hachi a mystery dog because they never really know where he came from.

大家都说八公是条神秘狗，无人知道它。

Exactly how or why Fazza came by the engraving in the first place is a mystery, but there was no mystery about the origins of the toolbox—he made it himself.

到底老爹开始怎么会搞到那块铜版谁都不知道，但这工具箱可没什么神秘——他自己做。

No one knew anything about his family. While the society of up-country Georgia was not so impregnable as that of the Coast aristocrats, no family wanted a daughter to wed a man about whose grandfather nothing was known.

尽管佐治亚内地社会并不像海滨贵族社会那样难以接近，可是也没有哪个家庭愿意让自己女儿媳给个不明男人。